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It was a bit cold on May 28, 1983, when Stefan Bellof competed for the qualifying of the ADAC 1000-kilometer race at the Nürburgring as part of the sports car world championship. His car: The Porsche 956 K with the chassis number 007; first equipped with 13-inch wide rims on the front axle. More camber and modified steering levers ensure better steering behavior.
A distance of 20.835 kilometers per lap was to be mastered at that time. Less than 2 km shorter than usual. Due to the new construction of the Grand Prix circuit and the pit system, a connector with a short pit lane behind grandstand T13 was created.
No one guessed that on that weekend a record would be set, which would stand more than 30 years later.
The former Formula 1 driver Jochen Mass ends his qualifying with a time of 6: 16.850 min, as one of the last driver Stefan Bellof starts on his lap.
Bellof does the unthinkable in Werksporsche, a fabulous time of 6: 11.13 min, 5 sec faster than teammate Mass. The reigning Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, even takes half a minute longer on his tour of the Green Hell.
Bellof was at an average speed of 202 km / h - faster than any racer before. Despite two small mistakes, as he would then say, typically relaxed.
In 5:19,55 Minuten hat Timo Bernhard am Morgen des 29. Juni 2018 Motorsportgeschichte geschrieben und die 20,832 Kilometer lange Nordschleife des Nürburgrings schneller umrundet, als es Stefan Bellof 1983 gelungen ist. Mit einem von allen Beschränkungen des Reglements befreiten Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo fuhr Bernhard eine Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit von 233,8 Kilometern pro Stunde auf der anerkannt schwierigsten Rennstrecke der Welt. Damit hat Timo Bernhard – fünfmaliger Gesamtsieger des 24-Stunden-Rennens auf dem Nürburgring, zweimaliger Gesamtsieger der 24 Stunden von Le Mans und amtierender Langstrecken-Weltmeister – den bisherigen Streckenrekord von Stefan Bellof um 51,58 Sekunden unterboten. 35 Jahre und 31 Tage blieb Bellofs Rekordrunde von 6:11,13 Minuten unangefochten. Er fuhr seinen Rekord am 28. Mai 1983 mit einem 620 PS starken Rothmans Porsche 956 C im Training zum 1000-Kilometer-Rennen. Auch seine Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit betrug über 200 Stundenkilometer.
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On race Sunday, the second Porsche works car with Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass crossed the finish line as the winner. Stefan Bellof had to park his Porsche in the section Pflanzgarten after an accident in lap 19.
With this track record, the history of Stefan Bellof is inseparable from that of the Nürburgring. The curve combination between the jump hill in the Pflanzgarten and the Schwalbenschwanz section bears the name 'Stefan-Bellof-S' since 2013.
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